The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-06

been legalizing the rum traffic and
then had the effrontery to punish
those who patronized her business
too freely
The saloon-keepers are not the only
sinners in this murderous business.
The poters who might have broken up
the nefarious traffic, but did not try
to do it, come in for their part OF the
condemnation Perhaps others who
have protested feebly against the
curse, though they have never voted
for, but always against the traffic
whenever such thing was possible,
may not be wholly innocent. If So
ciety should drape herself "in sack
cloth and ashes" for the next year,
and should, during that time, shed
all the tears of which she is capable,
and mourn and lament necessarily,
her grief would not be excessive
Her criminality in this matter far
exceeds all her powers of computa-
ton. In getting up these numerous
indictments against alcohol, let her
remember that she has been, for more
than a century, the partner OF
alcohol.
1t is hopeful sign that large
element in society can no longer con-
sent to be even silent partners in
this foul traffic. Her voice now in
vites to stop this infinite curse. Will
we do it?
v. MORAL CONSIDERATIONS IMPELL'
ING US TO VOTE FOR PROHIBITION.
1t has been said that society does
does not prohibit any thing because
it is an evil in itself, but because of
its evil effects upon herself. Now,
however, society through her
agent government, calls upon the
individual sovereigns of the land to
vote upon this subject; and voters, if
they would do their full duty in the
premises, should acquaint themselves
with all tie bearings Of this many
sided erH. They should look into
the financial, social, domestic, politt-
cal, moral, religious, the temporal, and
eternal bearings of the liquor traffic.
Let the voter see, in this giant curse,
the agent that destroys mems bodies,
blights their characters, and consigns
their souls to He'll Uutil he takes
this comprehensive view Of the stu
alton, he cannot put forth efforts suf-
ficiently vigorous in this contest be-
tween virtue and vice, life and death,
Heaven and He'll
But to be more specific: Every
body knows that if the liquor traffic
continues, the evils that have been
limited at above will certainly continue.
Billions of money will continue to
be destroyed, hundreds of thousands
of citizens will be ruined, women
and children will continue to be i'm
poverished, defrauded and given to
beggars' graves. Now, what l wish
to say is that no intelligent man who
claims to be philanthropist or a
Christian, can, without a sacrifice of
all his claims to either, vote that this
vast curse shall continued And the
man who votes to continue the traffic,
becomes morally responsible for the re-
suit of his vote. If thousands of his
fellow citizens continue to make
drunkards of themselves, through
the temptation which he puts in their
way, he is guilty Of making them
drunkardsl And when he sees a
poor woman and her children reduc-
ed to beggars, because the husband
and father fell, through the liquor
that his vote said should remain, then
he may truthfully say, 81 did thatl
made those miserable beggarsl"
And when one dies of drunkenness
occasioned by the whisky that his
vote retained in the market, he may
say, "And / did that" And when
he sees the soul of the poor drunk
ard tossed on the pillows Of eternal
despair, in the drunkard's Hell, he
may say, "And / sent him there"
Matter had as well try to eliminate
gravity from itself, as for the man
who votes for whisky-and thereby
votes for all the consequences that he
knows must follow-to eliminate from
himself the moral consequences Of